Thursday, August 18, 2011

List of Free Downloadable Dataset !!!

ORNL DAAC OGC Standards-based Geospatial Data Visualization/Download

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Category:
Biogeochemical dynamics
Coverage:
Global
Comment:
The ORNL DAAC provides access to various geospatial data, including ORNL DAAC archived data through Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards-based Web Services (Web Map Service and Web Coverage Service). OGC services allow users to select the spatial extent, format, projection and resolution of the data to be previewed and/or downloaded.

High Resolution Gridded Datasets 10' resolution (~18km)
Mean precipiation, mean temperature, wet days, relative humidity, 10m wind speed, sunshine hours, elevation
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Category:
Climate
Coverage:
Global
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IWMI-CPWF have released an on-line data and information portal that provides access to water, agriculture and environment scientific data
The portal name is IDIS - Integrated Database Information System. It allows you to query, download, plot, graph shared data and access its metadata (in GeoNetwork of course – quite a few CGIAR centers have tried to build a similar multi-domain data sharing portal but none succeeded so far – this is a CGIAR breakthrough.
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Category:
Climate
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The Global River Discharge Database (RivDIS):
Yearly time series with monthly data of discharge (m3/s) for about 1000 sites.
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Category:
Water Resources
Coverage:
Global
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Each data entry provides textual information, tabular data, and graphs

Global Land Cover Characterization
Land cover with different legends available
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Category:
Land Cover & Vegetation
Coverage:
Global & Continental
Comment:
All continental databases share the same map projections (Interrupted Goode Homolosine and Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area), have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1- km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data spanning April 1992 through March 1993.

Satellite imagery
Products from divers sensors, e.g Landsat, MODIS, ASTER, Quickbird, AVHRR
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Category:
Land Cover & Vegetation
Coverage:
Global & regional
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NO-CHARGE IMAGERY FOR EVERYONE!
The USGS has released a technical announcement outlining the plan for the release of no-charge Landsat data.
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Land Cover & Vegetation
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Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000)
State and conditions of forest resources for the year 2000, and their changes over the last 20 years
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Category:
Land Cover & Vegetation
Coverage:
Global
Comment:
produced from the Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC) Database

Global Biodiversity Information
The convention on biological diversity:
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Category:
Protected Areas & Biodiversity
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Digital charts of the world:

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Category:
Protected Areas & Biodiversity
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Odden’s bookmarks a link library to maplibraries:

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Category:
Protected Areas & Biodiversity
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Soil Map of the World and Derived Soil Properties
Soil data and derived properties
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Category:
Soils & Snow Cover
Coverage:
Global
Comment:
Original scale 1 : 5 000 000

WFP Snow cover
Vector file; the aim of this project is to provide daily updated information on snow covered areas as a support to WFP Logistics.
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Category:
Soils & Snow Cover
Coverage:
Nepal and Pakistan
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GIS Climate Change Scenarios
Climate scenarios (e.g. air and surface pressure & temperature, precipitation flux, incoming and outcoming radiation, etc)
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Category:
Climate Change
Coverage:
Global
Comment:
Users must first register to view and/or download data. Data downloadable in ESRI Shape format

SALB: Second Level Administrative Boundaries
administrative boundaries down to the second sub-national level
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Category:
General Map Data
Coverage:
Global
Comment:
Project finished on end of 2006
Recommended not to use the data at a scale below 1:1 000 000
Vector data

Global Map
Boundaries, Drainage, Transportation, Population Centers, Elevatic, Land Cover, Land Use, and Vegetation
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Category:
General Map Data
Coverage:
Global
Comment:
ISGM aims to complete the development of the Global Map for the whole land area of the globe by 2007. After the completion, the data are to be updated at intervals of approximately five years.
  • To download Global Map data, user registration is required
  • Raster and Vector data

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) – GEO Data Portal
The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.
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Category:
Others
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Group on Earth Observation
The GEOportal provides an entry point to access Earth Observationinforma tion and services. It will connect to a system of existing portals, addressing the GEO Societal Benefit Areas globally and provide national to regional perspective to achieve synergy and leverage.
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Category:
Others
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Global Land Cover Facility
Contain whole range of imagery and products.
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Category:
Others
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Category:
Others
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Others
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Category:
Others
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